The European Central Bank published ten shortlisted designs for the next series of euro banknotes on Thursday and opened a public survey that runs until 21 September. One theme puts six cultural figures on the notes; the other puts six birds and a river. No Portuguese figure made the six.
The CODU do Norte in Porto, the busiest of Portugal's four medical dispatch centres, lost its computer system between 19:20 and 21:20 on Thursday. Technicians fell back to pen and paper while Coimbra, Lisbon and Faro absorbed the calls. INEM has not commented.
The Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa ruled on Thursday that the case over the 2012 EDP Continente card partnership has not expired, reversing a March decision that had voided €34.4 million in fines. The authority says 19 cases worth over €880 million face the same clock.
An armoured dinosaur that died about 155 million years ago has been found roughly 85% complete in a cliff at the mouth of the Sizandro river in Torres Vedras. Preserved belly-down with its armour still in place, it may be the oldest ankylosaur yet identified in continental Europe.
INE's farm yearbook shows Portugal covered just 16.8% of its cereal needs in 2024/25 while olive oil hit 247.9% on the second-best campaign ever. Wine output fell 14%, the agrifood trade deficit widened to €6.3 billion, and real farm income per worker dropped 4.5%.
